We will always try to help with any problem you may have with the app. If we can't help then you can have a refund, no questions asked.

Although 22,000+ five star ratings will tell you that most people are very satisfied customers. Make sure you read as many comments as possible to get a good idea of what most people think of the app.

We still respect the old 24 hour refund policy. So if you're not happy with the app just email us within 24 hours and you can have a refund. We'll need to know the order number, which you can find on the emails sent to you by Google when you downloaded.

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New permissions:

Full network access - Required for network and cloud access. No information is passed to us over the internet.

Add or remove accounts - Used by the Google Drive SDK to add a new account if desired. No changes are made to existing accounts and no details accessed apart from the account name.

Find accounts on the device - Used to list available accounts for logging into Google Drive.

Prevent from sleeping - Used to stop the device sleeping during long operations so they are not interrupted.

My review

Review from

Excellent file manager allowing multiple folder tabs, long filenames (at least 255 characters displayed with text wrapping) and more. I use it on an unrooted phone and couldn't function without it. The Android 7.0 built-in file browser called "My Files" on my Samsung phone is brain damaged in comparison.

Reviews

4.7

31,450 total

5 25,989

4 3,122

3 844

2 356

1 1,139

Aditya Joshi

This is an excellent file manager app with every feature one would reasonably need in a file manager from extracting to moving to copying to viewing. Works flawlessly with Android 8.0 and the dark material design theme is amazing. Frequent updates ensure the app is working reliably. Keep it up devs!

Nick Cooter

Has many options and a great Dev team. Looking forward for what's to come here! :-) Switching to material drawables would be fantastic!

Galab Parchev

What's happened with SMB client? It doesn't work at all.

Scott Mackey

Great software, worth a purchase. Pleased with SMB features.

David Jonas

Fantastic. I've never accessed my system root more easily.

David Ossewaarde

Best file explorer out there... bar none.

User reviews

Aditya Joshi November 18, 2017

This is an excellent file manager app with every feature one would reasonably need in a file manager from extracting to moving to copying to viewing. Works flawlessly with Android 8.0 and the dark material design theme is amazing. Frequent updates ensure the app is working reliably. Keep it up devs!

Have always heard that this was the best of the root file explorers. After es went belly up I finally decided to make the purchase after years of debate. Eh, maybe it's just me or my old LG V10 but honestly I'm not impressed. Its not bad, just not great. I was already aware of the lackluster ui but the functionality isn't there for me. Half the time it won't make changes and yes I have rw turned on. Btw why do I feel like I have to turn it in every single time? Also my main grow is opening text editor is ridiculously slow. Guess im gonna have to limp back to solid explorer pro for the time being. I'll definitely give this another chance though. Years of 5 star reviews cant be wrong

Best in class file manager, getting the full version of Root explorer + free version of ES File Explorer pretty much covers power users file needs. Great if combined with Titanium Backup Root to export device backup images for the ROM afficianado crowd.

Note 8, NOT ROOTED. Got the new phone and now I'm not rooted. However, I still believe that RE is the best file manager out there. Still works great on an unrooted phone. Excellent example of what a fire manager should be. Does more than Antek Explorer.

Update: Been having an issue with the Google Drive tab, it just stays blank. I tried re-installing but still nothing. I installed the regular Explorer and it connects just fine, any ideas? / Man, and I thought this app could NOT get any better! LOVING the update. The addition of my Google Drive alone is just awesome, and it works flawlessly. Tabs! Oh man, and they can stay where you left them. Come on, I'd pay for this all over again. THANK YOU! Excellent job guys. Keep it up.

I've moved big files with several other file managers & had them fail, not with this one, if file is over 300mb I choose this one. I gotta admit, someone gave me a old copy of this app & I used for quite awhile. Quite glad to show & support dev team for real now with purchase of this great app!

Now a days app is not at all opening and if incase it opened means it is hanged... and most of the times, app is crashing.... I'm a paid user and reported this issue in this month so many times... till no update came to fix all these bugs.... Is this the way, your app will work....??? I need a valid answer otherwise I will file a case through google play store help.

The BEST root or no Root app available. Quick response from technical support is amazing. I have used this app on over 5 phones & 8 tablets from Motorola to Samsung. I recommended it to over 100 people with very minimal complaints. If you can't operate or understand Root Explorer, don't blame them for your own incompetence or lack of knowledge. Don't leave bad reviews for not understanding something you probably shouldn't be F'n with. It does exactly what it is meant to do. Explore your file system but with many other awesome features.

Yeah great, fab, I've been commited to this app since Gingerbread days, but why did the old filing cabinet icon in the launcher have to grow an opaque white background? That icon is a big old no-no. It never used to be like that.

If it worked perfectly for years and has now started crashing, have you considered that there may be a problem with your Nougat ROM? If you email support@speedsoftware.co.uk we will be happy to work through your issue with you. Analytics show that only a tiny percentage of users experience crashes and we would like to make that 0%!

Chris Wible June 10, 2017

Great app. I use it all the time. The last update has failures during zip and gzip. I hope that is fixed soon.